ESCAPE 2 AFRICA's animals are fairly high up the anthropomorphic evolutionary scale, closer to Bugs Bunny than THE LION KING's Simba. Even though they spend most of their time standing upright, co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath still wanted them to exist in a naturalistic environment and put all of DreamWorks' technology to work to that end.

"We actually took a trip to Africa early on and went to eight preserves in 10 days," Darnell explained. "When you get there it just opens up. Two-thirds of what you see is the sky, and it feels like you can see the curve of the Earth. It's a huge scope and we wanted to catch that in the film."

Two-Disc DVD Special Features Include:

Disc One:
-- DWA Jukebox
-- Filmmaker Commentary
-- It's A Family Affair: The Cast of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
-- Making of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
-- Crash Landing
-- African Adventure
-- Jambo Jambo: Swahili Speak
-- Test Flight of Air Penguin Game
-- MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Activision Game Trailer
-- Music Videos: The Traveling Song" Sing Along, "Move It, Move It," "Big and Chunky" and "She Loves Me"

Disc Two:
-- THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR episodes "Popcorn Panic" and "Gone in a Flash"
-- The Bronx Zoo: Madagascar
-- Alex's Dance Off
-- The Heart of a Lion
-- DVD-Rom
* MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA PC Flash Mini-Game
* MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Game Demo w/ Exclusive Cheat Code
* HP Printables
* Web links
-- Penguin Easter Eggs include Move It, Move It, Hock Shop, Julien's Birthday, Tug of War, Fully Armed and No Thanks, I'm Stuffed

Single-disc DVD will also be available in either a widescreen or full screen edition and includes the following special features:
-- DWA Jukebox
-- Filmmaker Commentary
-- It's A Family Affair: The Cast of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
-- Making of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
-- Crash Landing
-- African Adventure
-- Jambo Jambo: Swahili Speak
-- Test Flight of Air Penguin Game
-- MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Activision Game Trailer
-- Music Videos: The Traveling Song" Sing Along, "Move It, Move It," "Big and Chunky" and "She Loves Me"

Blu-ray Bonus features include the DVD special features in HD plus Blu-ray Exclusive Content:
-- The Animators' Corner (HD)
-- Trivia Track (HD)

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER: Volume XIV on DVD

From 1988 to 1999, the hilarious and widely beloved space travelers on The Satellite of Love from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 skewered B-movies and in the process made them masterworks of comedy. Hot on the heels of the recent MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 2000 20th Anniversary celebration, Shout! Factory in association with Best Brains, Inc. presents MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XIV 4-DVD box set on February 3, 2009.

The 14th collection of the side-splitting Mystery Science Theater 3000 features the show's never-before-released film episodes MAD MONSTER, MANHUNT IN SPACE, SOULTAKER and FINAL JUSTICE, four limited-edition mini-posters, along with a wealth of new bonus content, including brand-new interview with SOULTAKER star and MSTie favorite Joe Estevez; new interview with FINAL JUSTICE writer/director Greydon Clark; Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot on ESPN's CHAEP SEATS WITHOUT RON PARKER; and original trailers. Join the banter as Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot as they supply their own playful brand of commentaries on some of cinema's most misunderstood "masterpieces" in Shout! Factory's MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XIV.

MAD MONSTER
Obsessed with getting revenge on those responsible for the demise of his career, Dr. Lorenzo Cameron concocts a serum that transforms his unsuspecting gardener into a deadly wolf-man. Join hosts Joel Hodgson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot as they send up the very best revenge-fueled-wolf-monster-created-by-a-mad-scientist film of 1942! This memorable episode of MST3K also includes the short COMMANDO CODY & THE RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON.

MANHUNT IN SPACE